Healthy life years at birth in Belgium: 63,3 for women, 64,1 for men. (Number of years expected to live without a disability)

by atrocious_cleva82

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  1. >[Source by Eurostat.](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Healthy_life_years_statistics)

    >In the EU, the number of healthy life years at birth in 2022 was 62.8 years for women and 62.4 years for men, a gender gap of 0.4 years. Life expectancy in 2022 was 83.3 years for women and 77.9 years for men, a gap of 5.4 years. As the gender gap was considerably smaller in terms of healthy life years than it was for overall life expectancy, most of the additional years of life expectancy for women tend to be lived with activity limitations. Therefore, men tended to spend a greater share (80.1%) of their somewhat shorter lives free from activity limitations than women (75.4%).

    Across the EU countries, life expectancy at birth for women in 2022 ranged between 77.9 years in Bulgaria and 85.9 years in Spain; a difference of 8.0 years. A similar comparison for men shows that the lowest life expectancy in 2022 was recorded in Latvia at 69.4 years and the highest in Sweden 81.4 years; a range of 12.0 years.

  2. Also today: pension age increases to 66.

    I think this is all wishful thinking. We should have switched to a capitalisation system such that people just could stop when it suited them. Not when the government decides.

  4. Strangely countries with the best social security systems also have the lowest number of years to live without a disability.

    Could it be that people are considered “disabled” faster in those countries? Or maybe they’re diagnosed faster because healthcare is better?

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